I agreed to everything because agreement was easy.

The next spring, I took her to Monaco.

In autumn, we celebrated a successful acquisition in Aspen.

She posted photographs from our trips, and investors congratulated me on how well I seemed to have moved on.

Yet small things kept interrupting my satisfaction.

I found one of Hannah’s notes inside a seldom-used briefcase.

A florist sent an annual reminder of her birthday.

On a business trip through Saint Paul, I saw a display of lavender outside a garden shop and remembered Hannah explaining how the plant attracted bees.